Amazon Stymies Lendle E-book Lending Service

CheerfulMacFanboy writes "CNET quotes Lendle co-founder Jeff Croft: 'They [Amazon] shut the API access off, and without it, our site is mostly useless. So, we went ahead and pulled it down. Could we build a lending site without their API? Yes. But it wouldn't be the quality of product we expect from ourselves.' Croft also said 'at least two other Kindle lending services got the same message' yesterday.'"

Comments

Re:Dear Amazon

[ThatsNotPudding]

Therefore the trusting will go elsewhere...

Such as the Public Library...soon to be closed by budget-slashing consevatives to fund the Defense of the Wealthy Act of 2011.

Re:Capitalism At Its Finest

[C_amiga_fan]

>>>They want you to think that Capitalismis about choice, Well that is true if you are rich.

That is so easily falsifiable:

I am not rich. I am one of the poor working class, and yet I have freedom of choice. I CHOOSE not to buy comcast (getting my TV for free). I CHOOSE not to buy circuit city (which eventually went bankrupt). I CHOOSE not to buy sony or verizon or toyota or..... I also choose not to buy software, instead preferring to use free options (OpenOffice, VLC player, Winamp, etc).

Now contrast that with the monopoly of Government, which forces me to use the shitty post office, forces me to fund Amtrak even though I haven't ridden a train in 30 years, forces me to buy Hospital insurance even though I don't want any (I'd sooner leave my fate to god), and so on.

Give me capitalism (choice/free market) versus monopoly any day.